MK-Ultra: The Conspiracy Theory that Came to Life
One of the most well-known facilities to take part of the MK-Ultra mind control experiments was once known as the Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Here, doctor Isbell Harris was the head researcher for Addition Research Center at the, newly named, Public Health Service Hospital. Dr. Isbell was known for the extensive research he did with various drugs on imprisoned narcotics offenders that resided in the facility he worked at. Despite Dr. Isbell already working for the Public Health Service Hospital, the C.I.A. was also funding some of his research pertaining to mind control and the psychological effects of psychedelics drugs, mainly LSD, on humans. His research on patients was often forced …show more content…
The second section primarily dealt with tolerance to LSD and how he experimented on various men in four different experiments. The first two administered LSD in a short period of time and got the participants to answer questionnaires and assessments when it was over. While the third and fourth experiments were over longer periods of time ranging from 3 to 85 days and measured effects on the person’s blood pressure, knee jerk, and pupillary diameter. Isbell described his findings on tolerance by saying, “When LSD was given daily, tolerance was evident after administration for only three days. After tolerance was well developed, administration of as much as four times the standard dose of LSD did not restore the original intensity of the reaction. On discontinuation of LSD, tolerance was lost as rapidly as it was developed” (Isbell). While the last of the three sections served as Dr. Isbell’s conclusion that LSD would have similar effects on former opiate user and non-addicts. Many of the other institutions would conduct the experiments like Dr. Isbell, on subjects who didn’t want to take part in them or on people who didn’t know they had been drugged. All while many of the establishments were being paid by the C.I.A. to conduct these research
One of the most well-known facilities to take part of the MK-Ultra mind control experiments was once known as the Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Here, doctor Isbell Harris was the head researcher for Addition Research Center at the, newly named, Public Health Service Hospital. Dr. Isbell was known for the extensive research he did with various drugs on imprisoned narcotics offenders that resided in the facility he worked at. Despite Dr. Isbell already working for the Public Health Service Hospital, the C.I.A. was also funding some of his research pertaining to mind control and the psychological effects of psychedelics drugs, mainly LSD, on humans. His research on patients was often forced …show more content…
The second section primarily dealt with tolerance to LSD and how he experimented on various men in four different experiments. The first two administered LSD in a short period of time and got the participants to answer questionnaires and assessments when it was over. While the third and fourth experiments were over longer periods of time ranging from 3 to 85 days and measured effects on the person’s blood pressure, knee jerk, and pupillary diameter. Isbell described his findings on tolerance by saying, “When LSD was given daily, tolerance was evident after administration for only three days. After tolerance was well developed, administration of as much as four times the standard dose of LSD did not restore the original intensity of the reaction. On discontinuation of LSD, tolerance was lost as rapidly as it was developed” (Isbell). While the last of the three sections served as Dr. Isbell’s conclusion that LSD would have similar effects on former opiate user and non-addicts. Many of the other institutions would conduct the experiments like Dr. Isbell, on subjects who didn’t want to take part in them or on people who didn’t know they had been drugged. All while many of the establishments were being paid by the C.I.A. to conduct these research